Found 3 hits - Term: barely, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
barely \bare"ly\, adv.
1. without covering; nakedly.
1913 webster
2. without concealment or disguise.
1913 webster
3. merely; only.
1913 webster
r. for now his son is duke.
w. barely in title, not in revenue. --shak.
1913 webster
4. but just; without any excess; with nothing to spare of
quantity, time, etc.; hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there
was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
barely
adv 1: by a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we
hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had
scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open";
"would have scarce arrived before she would have found
some excuse to leave"- w.b.yeats syn: hardly, just,
scarcely, scarce
2: in a sparse or scanty way; "a barely furnished room" syn: scantily
see also:
hardly just scarcely scarce scantily
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
46 moby thesaurus words for "barely":
a bit, a little, alone, baldly, by a hair, by an ace, closely,
ever so little, exclusively, exiguously, faintly, feebly, hardly,
imperfectly, inappreciably, inconsequentially, insignificantly,
just, just a bit, lightly, little, meagerly, merely, minimally,
minutely, nakedly, narrowly, nearly, negligibly, not hardly,
not quite, only, only just, plainly, purely, scantily, scarce,
scarcely, simply, simply and solely, singly, slightly, solely,
tant soit peu, triflingly, weakly
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